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Monday, June 21, 2010

Baby Shower Details

Recently, the pink + yellow baby shower I threw for my friend Ashley has been featured on severalblogs. {Thank you all for your kind words!} And I've received a number of questions about details...so I figured an all-encompassing blog post is in order.

The Wall:

I had this genius (at the time) idea of creating a lightweight, fake wall that I could hang on my wall with adhesive. (Adhesive = no wall damage). My plan involved six sheets of foam board, tape, glue, lots of cursing, and paintable bead board wallpaper. I took a fabric swatch from the table cloth and had paint dyed to match. It would have been the perfect plan. Except that when I went into the garage to inspect my wall, the drying wallpaper paste had warped the foam boards into a perfect half pipe. Too bad it wasn't a skater-themed baby shower. All in all, it was a huge nightmare. I should have just sucked it up, rented a truck and bought a real piece of bead board. Lesson learned: do NOT try to construct a wall out of paper. Duh.

All the labels (popcorn, candy bars, water bottles) I just did on my computer and printed off. {The beauty of custom-labeled items, is that it can be done way in advance; and the tiniest details are often the most noticed.}

1 comment:

LOL about the wall.It was a pretty theme... love love those paper flowers evertime Isee them I think i need to make me some of those flowers... so here I go again. This time I think I will :)have a great week